State v. Alers’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Michigan v. Bryant · United States v. Arnold · 219 W. Va. 366 - State v. Mechling
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sufficiency of circumstantial evidence to support a conviction is measured against the same standard as all other evidence: it will sustain a conviction if sufficient to convince a reasonable trier of fact that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.